GeForce 8800 GTX and Radeon HD 3730 - video card comparison
GeForce 8800 GTX
Radeon HD 3730
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
G80
RV635
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2006
October 2008
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
576 MHz
722 MHz
CUDA cores
575
-
Floating-point performance
345.6 gflops
173.28 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
90 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
681 million
378 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
128
120
Power consumption (TDP)
155 Watt
65 Watt
Texture fill rate
36.8 billion/sec
5.776
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
768 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
792 MHz
Memory bandwidth
86.4 GB/s
12.67 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
10.1 (10_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
3.3
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A